Fire-extinguisher.



No. 649,004. Patented MayL s, leon.

E. F. sTEcK.

FIRE EXTINGUISHER.

(Application led Sept. 28, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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ERNST F. STECK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRE EXTIN-GUISHER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FIRE`EXTINGUISHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 649,004, dated May 8,1900.

Application filed September 28,1899. Serial No. 731,901. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST F. STECK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Im'- rovements in Ere-Extinguishersof which the following is a full, clear, and exact specilication. i

My invention relates to fire-extinguishers, and the improvements havemore especial reference to bottle holders or baskets for chemicalfire-extinguishers of that class in which the same bottle is usedrepeatedly.

rlhe primary object of my invention is to provide a bottle basket orholder of such a construction that the bottle will be securely held inplace during the operation of the apparatus, and when the basket isremoved from the tank the bottle may be readily reiilled while restingin the basket, or, if desired, may be removed from the basket.

A further object of my invention is to accomplish the foregoing resultswithout necessarily employing screw-threads for connecting the membersof the basket together.

With these ends in View my invention consists in certain features ofnovelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts bywhich the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearingare attained, all as fully described, with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View of aportable lire-extinguisher provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is asimilar view showing the extinguisher inverted and in operation. Fig. 3is an enlarged side elevation of the basket-holder and the closing-cap.Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the hinged bail of the basket turneddown to permit the refilling of the bottle, the bottlestopper beingshown removed in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view showing theopposite side to that presented in Figs. 3 and 4; and Fig. 6 is atransverse section taken on the line 6 6, Fig. 3.

1 represents the tank of a portable fire-extinguisher, having the usualthreaded neck 2, closed by a screw-cap 3, and from which latis vusuallysuspended.

In carrying out my invention I secure to the under side of this cap 3 apair of hangers 4, which constitute the bail of a basket or bottleholder 5, having a bottom flange 6, upon which rests the chemical-bottle7, as usual. The arms or hangers 4, however, are pivoted at 8 toopposite sides of the basket proper, 5, vso as to constitute a hingeconnection between the basket and its bail, and thereby permit the cap 3to be turned down in the position shown in Fig. 4 after it has beenunscrewed from the neck 2 and removed from the tank, thus enabling therefilling of the bottle 7 without removing it from its basket 5. .Y

When the extinguisher is not in use, the bottle-basket of course hangsperpendieularly from its bail 4 in the position shown in Fig. 1 and isclosed by the usual stopper 9, and when the extinguisher is in operationit stands in a perpendicular direction, as shown in Fig. 2. not slipdown in its basket when the extin guisher is inverted and yet may befree to be removed from the basket when the latter is withdrawn from thetank, I provide the side of the basket with a curved slot 10 and one ofthe arms or hangers 4 with a dependingportion 11, having an inturned lug12, which projects through this curved slot 10 when the bail of thebasket is turned straight with the basket and engages with the shoulderof the bottle, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, thus preventing thebottle from slipping downwardly in its basket when the extinguisher isinverted.

In order to prevent the basket from turning on its hinges when theextinguisher is inverted, I provide a lock, which automatically se curesthe two members of thev basket-1I. e., the bail 4 and basket proper,-together when they are in their normal position, as-

shown in Fig. 5. This lock consists of a friction-hold composed of twomembers, one of which is in the form of a depending projection 13 on theother one of the hangers4 and which constitutes a latch, while the otherone of these friction-hold members consists of a notched catch 14,secured to the side of the In order now that the bottle may basketproper and adapted to receive the beveled end of the catch 13, which iscomposed of spring material, when the bail and the basket are alined, asshown in Fig. 5, and thus h old them in alinement, but not so rigidlythat they may not be turned on the hinge, as j shown in Fig. 4, whendesired. i When the apparatns is inverted, the end of the stopper 9falls into a stopper-guide 15, carried on the under side of the cap 3and serving to prevent the stem of the stopper from losing its place inthe neck of the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a lire-extinguisher the combination of a tank, a chemical-bottle,a two-part bottle basket or holder located in said tank and having itsmembers hinged together near the upper end of the bottle in saidbottle-basket and means operated by the movement of one of said membersfor holding the bottle in place in the other member, substantially asset forth.

2. In a fire-extinguisher the colnbination of a tank, a chemical-bottle,a bottlebasket having a hinged bail provided with a projection adaptedto come against a part of the bottle when the bail isin its normalposition, for holding the bottle in place when the tank is inverted,substantially as set forth.-

3. In a ireeztinguisher the combination of a tank, a chemical-bottle, atwo-part bottle a tank, the cap 3 having the stopper-guide 15 on theunder side thereof, the hangers 4 del pending from said cap and havingthe rojecl tions l1 and 13 respectively, the lng 1 on lthe projection1l, a basket hinged to said hangers 4 and having the slot 10 forreceiving thel lug 12, a bottle in said basket engaged by said 111g 12,the catch 14 on said basket for engaging the projection 13 and thestopper 9, substanL tially as set forth. v

j ERNST F. STECK. A Titnessesz EDNA 4B. JOHNSON, F. A. I-IOPKINs.

